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It is widely held to be the world's most massive single organism. This article lists the largest organisms for various types of life and mostly considers extant species, [a] which found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of an organism's size, such as: mass, volume, area, length, height, or even genome size.
Pando is the largest tree by weight and landmass and the largest known aspen clone. Pando was identified as a single living organism because each of its stems possesses identical genetic markers. [2] The massive interconnected root system coordinates energy production, defense and regeneration across the tree's landmass. [3]
The beetles are the largest order of organisms on earth, with about 400,000 species so far identified. The most massive species are the Goliathus , Megasoma and Titanus beetles already mentioned. Another fairly large species is the Hercules beetle ( Dynastes hercules ) of the neotropic rainforest with a maximum overall length of at least 19 cm ...
Here are some images of the northern green anaconda, indigenous to the Orinoco Basin of the Amazon and "magnificent" in size. 'Magnificent creatures': New photos show largest anaconda ever ...
If this colony is considered a single organism, it is one of the largest known organisms in the world by area, only knowingly rivalled by a colony of Posidonia australis on the Australian seabed that measures 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi; 49,000 acres), and rivals the aspen grove "Pando" as the known organism with the highest living biomass.
The Hazelwood Tree (not listed above) had a volume of 1,025.86 m 3 (36,228 cu ft) before losing half its trunk in a lightning storm in 2002, if it were still at full size it would currently be the 17th largest giant sequoia on earth. The largest giant sequoia killed at the hands of man was the Discovery Tree at Calaveras Grove, which was cut ...
Tardigrades have a short plump body with four pairs of hollow unjointed legs. Most range from 0.1 to 0.5 mm (0.004 to 0.02 in) in length, although the largest species may reach 1.3 mm (0.051 in). The body cavity is a haemocoel, an open circulatory system, filled with a colourless fluid
The largest living procyonid is the raccoon (Procyon lotor) of North America, having a body length of 40 to 70 cm (16 to 28 in) and a body weight of 3.5 to 9 kg (8 to 20 lb). The extinct Chapalmalania of South America was the largest known member of this family, about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in body length.